MENDON - A 20-month-old Mendon boy drowned Friday night in a backyard swimming pool at his home.

Evan Quinn, the son of James and Karen (Depweg) Quinn, 312 S. Washington St., was rushed to Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys, where he was pronounced dead about 10:45 p.m. [More]

Mercer County Sheriff's Deputy Chad Fortkamp has been suspended without pay for 45 days after the department's K-9 unit Zak died Wednesday from excessive heat after being unattended in a patrol car. [More]

GRAND LAKE - The state has not made a decision on whether it will provide more funds for a third alum treatment on Grand Lake next year, but one agency may have bowed out.

The company with plans to build an $11 million plant that turns manure into organic fertilizer is short $2 million but it is not calling it quits.

Paul Chadwick of Amiran Technologies, Oak Creek, Wisc., said the shortfall is because a private equity firm backed out.

WAPAKONETA - An Ohio State Highway Patrol sergeant fired his gun at a truck after the driver ran into the patrol car and then continued to drive toward the sergeant during a early Sunday morning traffic stop in Auglaize County.